10 Mysteries That are Locked Away in the Smithsonian

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10. John Dillinger’s sex organ
9. George Washington’s missing bed
8. A steam engine lost in the Titanic disaster may be owned by the Smithsonian
7. John F. Kennedy’s brain has been rumored to be held in the Smithsonian’s collections
6. Ghosts might be found in the Smithsonian in several of its buildings
5. The Smithsonian has a storage facility to protect meteorites from contamination
4. The Hope Diamond and its curse may be encountered at the Smithsonian
3. One can still learn a lot from a dummy
2. The model of Lincoln’s patented device is a replica
1. Missiles guided by pigeons along for the ride might have worked
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[@Andrewlang90]

Imagine what’s possibly being held by the Vatican....

[@winnifredforbes1114]

We will never know!😱

[@barryjarrett1024]

@@winnifredforbes1114 the Smithsonian is trying to duplicate the Vatican.

[@mikhabef5402]

Art

[@CodyKatastrophic]

Well, he happens to have a whole video on that too 😂🤘🏻

[@maestroclassico5801]

Think Simon has a video for that here.

[@dafttool]

Missing from your list, hundreds of giant skeletons which the Smithsonian has taken in over decades. Most notorious, the giant mummies from the Grand Canyon, where Egyptian-appearing & Buddhist-appearing statuary is also still missing some 100 years later

[@KB-lr4pl]

"There is an easy way to tell whether your house is haunted: It's not." --Jimmy Carr

[@I.am.Sarah.]

@@zahria Jimmy Carr is a British comedian

[@christo0187]

I've been there twice . The air and space museum is especially impressive. Plus it's all free to see!

[@melanietoth1376]

What!?! Free!?!?

[@Wolfie54545]

*D I S C O V E R Y*

[@mariaannalikouris4673]

@@melanietoth1376 all museums in dc except two (spy museum and maybe the holocaust museum) are free. It was one way to take the kids for a great weekend to the natural history museum and air and space museum without spending money.

[@mryeti1887]

The Udvar Hazy air and space is also free but it cost $15 to park. They used to run a bus between the 2 but not sure if they still do. It’s adjacent to IAD so if you have a long layover you can grab a taxi and go to the museum.

[@atbragdots8852]

it's like free disney world

[@annemchurchwell]

The sound at night is the tablet of Ahkmenrah's bring all the exhibits to life at night.

[@alexispenaran639]

What's that

[@annemchurchwell]

@@alexispenaran639 Night at the museum movie reference.

[@leegee1593]

@@alexispenaran639 you were born in the last seven years, weren’t you?

[@alexispenaran639]

@@leegee1593 no I'm 22 years old I just didn't grew up watching that movie 😢

[@maxdevlin4349]

The first image you showed is the wonderful old Smithsonian museum. when they renovated it many years ago, a friend of mine got hold of some of the old window panes from the place (this was before it became popular/fashionable/profitable\ to re-purpose old architectural stuff) and used them to renovate his parents home.

[@bigredc222]

That's cool.

[@bigredc222]

@Clayton Barfield I was there with a class trip in elementary school about 1970, and then was back in the 90s, but for some reason I just remember the hope diamond.

[@debdodson9867]

Says..Recycling materials;especially windows,is a beautiful thing..and has been for a really long time for some people..

[@trawlins396]

Adam Meyer that is VERY cool.

[@BeautifulSilence]

😭 this is beautiful 👐 Tell your friend to get that provenance on lock. It's an important part of the home's history (maybe even property value!)

[@DanaOrtiz]

This guy should get a world record for being on the most KZbin channels

[@TheGalantir]

@isabel elenes There's a button on your keyboard called caps lock you might want to press it sometime.

[@andyrickert1]

@isabel elenes dont be hating on my boy simon

[@TSemasFl]

Yeah he's sandbagging sponsors and likes to earn more money, he's a cheater.

[@realityshotgun]

@@TSemasFl how is it cheating? Each channel has a different theme and content. Also he works hard on each channel (only one is abandoned) with videos coming out multiple times a week for most of the channels. Seems like he's just putting the work in to make his money, not cheating.

[@joeh470]

@@realityshotgun i totally agree with you. He is moving so fast between channels, the wind friction has cleared his head of foliage.

[@63shakeandbake]

The strangest thing about the Smithsonian is how it came into being. A British scientist named James Smithson died and for some reason in his will stated that if no heirs exist to give the money to the American government to build a museum. Seeing how he had never been to America and this was during the time between the revolution and the war of 1812 it seems highly unlikely a Brit would leave his money to a hostile government such as America so one has to ask why did he?

[@the1savagebeast]

I would love to go through the Smithsonian vault! Let's see what they're really hiding.

[@debdodson9867]

Says..There are a whole lot of kosher dill pickles in those vaults at the museums..and that assumption really is about as accurate as anyone else's..

[@debdodson9867]

says..Pickles..

[@legoactionstudios9400]

A sign that says, “gotten” 😢

[@letitiajeavons6333]

Probably just dead Native Americans.

[@debdodson9867]

@@letitiajeavons6333 Can't trap native americans' spirit and neither can the Smithsonian...

[@karenholl2489]

i was born and raised right outside D.C. and have therefore been to smithsonian museums countless times. the moment i found out that most museums in the world you have to pay for had me shook

[@belle16117]

The Metropolitan Museum in NYC “suggests” a donation of $20 (or did last time I was there), but so worth it.

[@zahria]

In YOUR world probably. Not in ours.

[@scogin2670]

When I lived in Louisiana, The guy I played darts with, in tournaments, was pissed one night because we lost... He decided we needed to take our drunk selves to the New Orleans museum of art at 3 am. I said no f#@$ing way dude, it's closed. He said maan.. I work there...(I knew that but i didnt know he could go there any time he wanted) he said, look at this...he showed me a regular key ring with regular-looking keys... OK aaanyway.. We went and it was weird. He opened the case with the Faberge eggs and said here... I put my hands out, and he dropped one in... like it was just a big golf ball or something. I was trying to control my shaking... I said, take it out of my hand... NOW. He laughed and put it back... I don't really care if anyone believes me or not but, I know I've had a Faberge egg in my hands and I regret not actually looking closer at it. But I was scared to death of dropping it. That was back in 1998 I think.

[@shaunjay6040]

In my youth I watched a show around 3AM on PBS. It was called inside the vault or something along the line, and there was some wild things shown on that show! Babies born with wings and horns preserved in jars, bones of giants, etc.. I mean it was wild!! I wish it would come on again. It would be great to see again over 20 years later.

[@nichhodge8503]

Yes I’ve heard the Smithsonian has/had the bones of giants found in America in their possession

[@princemaeldireagh938]

Growing up in D,C. I often heard that the famous Dillinger member was located in the National Museum of Pathology, an amazingly grotesque little museum reached thru a back door in the big red Smythsonian building. My impression was that the NMP was actually a facility connected to the National Institutes of Health. This gave the Smythsonian the ability to deny having the celebrated organ. During the Sixties the Pathology museum was moved to NIH headquarters in Beltsville, Md. The Beltsville display is fairly tame lacking the sideshow aspects that made the old NMP such a hit with me and my friends. Unfortunately I never saw the legendary puzzle

[@warringtonfaust1088]

I can remember hearing the Dillinger story, as a kid, in the 1960's.

[@michaellicavoli3921]

During the 70s I spent an afternoon in the Smithsonian. The center display was called “Differences between the races”. Wonder how that would fly today?

[@ro4eva]

Considering that the party (and political spectrum) my family and I logistically + financially supported for many years (which we now deeply regret) has openly endorsed and/or praised what amounts to 21st Century racial segregation (in education and pro sports), and, is now infested with naive, emotionally-unhinged Marxists -- who have violently revealed that they want to see America be turned on its head -- what you claim to have seen in the 70s somehow might fit in remarkably well.

[@midnightodellewest1999]

I'v only been to the Smithsonian once, which was in 1997 and I was on summer break from college. I cannot speak to whether the place is haunted, but I do remember suddenly being overcome with absolute sadness and dread and not understanding why. Then I realized the room I was about to enter housed the Enola Gay, which was the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb, the first over Hiroshima and the second over Nagasaki. I have never felt such a visceral dread before or since and I will never forget how the feeling preceded any knowledge of what I was approaching. While I have never been prone to ponder the paranormal, I do believe, as a direct result of my experience that day, that certain objects can indeed hold onto to the pain experienced around them.

[@lijuowl]

Maybe. But also, it might have been an empathic feeling, catching up on the feelings of people around you, who knew what they were about to see or were already there

[@odysseusrex5908]

Just to be clear, the Enola Gay did not drop the bomb on Nagasaki. It did participate in that mission as a weather reconnaissance plane for the primary target of Nokura. When that target proved too obscured for the mission, the plane carrying the second bomb, Bockscar, diverted to Nagasaki, and saved millions of lives by ending the war.

[@midnightodellewest1999]

@@odysseusrex5908 Thank you, I did not know that. I appreciate the clarification.

[@odysseusrex5908]

@@midnightodellewest1999 You are welcome.

[@barryallen871]

Do you are claiming to be psychic??

[@alanthompson4912]

So what I have learned here is that if you don't want something veiwed or if you want something conveniently lost, give it to the Smithsonian museum.

[@samsalin]

Raiding this would be alot more interesting then area 51, probably less lethal too.

[@TheBillybob1982]

0Guiltyone0 And less disappointing in the long run.

[@callabeth258]

0Guiltyone0 a lot is two words

[@mikesansone2066]

I literally came here to say this

[@sixxdice586]

I'm in...when do we start

[@melanietoth1376]

I just want to get locked in

[@stephaniemccord6100]

John Dillinger's "member" tale is a tale that goes way back and is as humorous as the tale of the jackalope in Wyoming.

[@pagliaccisghost269]

Not sure about the infamous "jackelope" I can tell you from personal experience, in the late 1800's to early 1900's, there were rabbits that would tower over a regular size dog. There is a picture of my grandfather as a young child standing next to one that his father had killed. Stretched out, it was almost twice the size of my grandfather. I'd say it weighed an easy 50 pounds....

[@tonytouchzz]

Yup, maybe it was relatively big... but if it was THAT big, he wouldn’t be popular with women... I’m a bit over average and a quarter of the persons I’ve been with had to use hands to prevent going too deep. Personally know someone with a gigantic dong and he says it’s a curse more than anything, it doesn’t get too hard and no women can take it. So when I hear stories of someone with a huge shlong kept in a jar and all women want it, I totally know it’s BS. Maybe it’s big, but not « wtf is that thing, were all gonna die! » big.

[@susanrobinson910]

Gotta love Simon referring to the pigeons as, "Little Peckers". How did you keep a straight face?!

[@maxdevlin4349]

He went from allegedly big peckers to little peckers in this one lol

[@lagitanavderoscio]

Hpw, indeed? lpl

[@timapple6586]

Welll.. he's an expert on that. He'd be the first one to tell you.

[@lagitanavderoscio]

@@timapple6586 expert on little or big Boom : )

[@tyfuepanda2972]

@@maxdevlin4349 . .The first

[@lunavarion]

No mention of their legendary, alleged involvement with giant remains?

[@Chad_Thundernuts]

That's the one thing I was sure he'd mention.

[@lunavarion]

@@Chad_Thundernuts I waited the whole video for it and was disappointed. Maybe there'll be a part two or something. I imagine the Smithsonian's at the center of a lot of conspiracy theories.

[@derailed2157]

@Oftin Wong that's exactly what they want you to believe.

[@derailed2157]

@Oftin Wong In the words of C.S. Lewis or Walt Disney, I can't quite remember, "Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist."

[@derailed2157]

@Oftin Wong I'm not one to say there were giants 100%, but I've become sceptical of everything "they" push on us. After have being lied to time after time, it's hard not to question everything we've been told by the "Illuminati" if you will. Now I may be a bit radical in my beliefs, but there are multiple different news articles from the early 1900s about giant bones being found across America, especially buried underneath the many burial mounds found throughout the states. If you'd like I'll look into it more tomorrow, probably today by the time you're reading this, and get a few news articles you might find interesting. Like I said, I don't have any definitive proof there were giants, but I like to question everything I'm told, especially when it comes to history, we weren't alive back then and all we learn in the history books is from the perspective of the victors. I don't mean to keep dragging this on, but if you'd like to have a respectable debate on the subject, I'm all ears. If not just say so and I'll let you have the last word.

[@riggs20]

"America's Attic" That is hilariously accurate!

[@ladykoiwolfe]

The Hope Diamond is not denied, and when you see it there's a longing to hold it. I say this as someone who doesn't care for diamonds. This is the only diamond I have ever felt a craving for. I prefer lesser stones like obsidian, Tiger's eye, malachite, and turquoise. The curse would not apply to the Smithsonian, they only hold it like a bank vault. The ownership, which carries the curse, belongs to the family of the man who mailed the stone to the Smithsonian.

[@thomaspavelko9412]

Smithsonian: The intellectuals area 51.

[@razorransom1795]

Yup, actually most big historical libraries with large archives and many warehouses are those.

[@FLRDAMN]

Wow so smart, so cool.

[@Ghostcyborg71]

They have monocles and Alien skeletons 🧐

[@danielwebster5748]

Absolutely more than one very brilliant people have stated they have tools that are many millions of years older than people as a matter of fact some of them I know exist there was one group of tools dating at 20 million years that was on display until 1959 however there is said to be much older tools as well as abnormally tall red-headed Giants with two rows of teeth and six digits on each hand and each foot tall enough to Pat Robert Wadlow on his head do I believe the stories some of them like I said I know her true because I personally seen them a lot of these are unconfirmed stories and I would need some proof before I could totally believe them but I do believe there's things in the Smithsonian that if the truth were told it would rewrite the history books

[@nickpaine]

Man, I wish I'd said that. And I'm sure I will.

[@KCsFunHouse]

Omg I remember the crash test dummies both the commercials AND the band... oh such simpler times

[@foamer443]

Mythbusters

[@lockhart415]

I think you guys should do more videos about the Smithsonian. There's a lot of cool stuff in that place.

[@Dangic23]

Was expecting to hear about the giant bones given to the Smithsonian.

[@theflanman420420]

Dangic23 exactly... they have been collecting and hiding giant skeletons for 100 years to hide our real history.

[@TheDuke4100]

there is no such thing

[@TruthSayer2007]

Jason - If you do some research you’ll find a very long history of giants living on every continent in the world. Not to mention basic tools like ax heads being in excess of 50 pounds and yet still having the cuts and grooves proving they were used frequently. Please do some research rather than blithely denying a statement without doing due diligence first.

[@ceryseira]

@@theflanman420420 Who are 'they'? Giant what skeletons? Who is/are 'our'? Real history? As opposed to what?

[@ceryseira]

@@TruthSayer2007 Define research. Any source other than 'stories'? immensely curious. As for the axe heads I haven't come across anything heavier than 17.5-25 pounds being discovered, let alone 50 fitting your description or any indication of it being used by a single person, willing to look into anything you have. As for previous existing humanoid species being gigantic in any genuine sense of the word, I would purport the square-cube law denying the plausibility of a similar (type of build/skeletal structure) species to us having existed which was immensely larger than us. Modern and/or current day evidence supporting this stance would be that people who are born significantly taller than us generally don't live very long as their body is so taxed by their height and therefore weight, as well as medical abnormalities typically being the cause of their size in the first place. I am however open to consideration and genuinely interested in hearing about anything you have found though. The world is a greatly intriguing place and even now holds a great deal of secrets we've yet to uncover/discover.

[@Objectified]

6'2 "was considerably taller than most men of his day" -- it's also considerably taller than most men of this day.

[@WmGood]

Two assets possessed by George Washington were his exceptional height and his uncanny resemblance to a dollar bill. Both made him stand out.

[@sockhopper]

On average, yes. But 6’2 in the 1700s is like being 6’9 now.

[@LazyIRanch]

I would love to visit the Smithsonian again some day. I was there in 1967 when I was six years old. Loved every minute of it, and we spent 3 days exploring. Daddy wanted to see everything! One day, I got tired and laid on the carpet of one room for a nap. Mom was horrified when she finally found me, I was lying right next to the case containing the Hope Diamond! I didn't know about the "curse", so had no idea why she was so freaked out. LOL

[@70mjc]

John Barber show her how and lead by example

[@LazyIRanch]

@John Barber Yep, along with everyone else

[@timapple6586]

@@LazyIRanch Shazam! =D

[@conniecrawford5231]

The Smithsonian Museums consist of 20 different museums, 11 of them on the National Mall - even the National Zoo is a Smithsonian! Several of the Smithsonians are located in different states outside of D.C.! Uninformed people say “ I went to the Smithsonian” without specifying which museum they mean. It drives me crazy that they don’t realize how vast the collections are in the “Nation’s Attic” ! Please learn the names of the individual museums !

[@BJGvideos]

But they all fall under the collective name.

[@williamjeffersonclinton69]

Homing Pigeon Bombs doesn't sound that crazy when you think about the Brits and the 1950s Operation Blue Peacock.

[@swankelly]

The fact that we don't know what happened to JFK's brain bothers me.

[@fademusic1980]

What was left of it

[@dougplemons3640]

Me too. I've never believed that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I don't think we will ever know the truth.

[@jeremymelvin6976]

The fact that I don't know what they'll do with my brain bothers me.

[@honeybabou6119]

It's been shared between around 50 museums.

[@PJSmith5]

Quietly given back to family and buried.

[@WS-gw5ms]

Those crash test dummy toys were awesome. One was a Ford taurus like car that totally blew apart when you crashed it.

[@all-timealien4483]

I remember having those. Your comment just brought up a memory I forgot I had lol

[@Whitpusmc]

They have the Holy Grail, the Roswell Alien Spacecraft and a KZbin intelligent comment.

[@jujubee9422]

lololo

[@the1savagebeast]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LordDragon1965]

And, of course, the Presidential book of secrets.

[@brianbell564]

Intelligent comments are not nonexistent, but they are extremely rare, aren’t they?

[@Whitpusmc]

Brian Bell That’s an insult to us plebeians! I meant incoherent, stupid spelchk. (Yes).

[@JT-cloverbottomt]

Simon...In 1980 I was an intern at the Smithsonian. I can attest that there are many haunted buildings there. It’s still a wonderful place though. Enjoyed the video.

[@realhvmanbeing]

J T can you tell me anything

[@heatherhillman7280]

I saw the Hope Diamond at the Smithsonian several years ago. My luck has been no better or worse than before I saw it. I guess the thick plexiglass around it does work to keep the curse at bay. 😉

[@cooldudeawesome9344]

You have to wear it to have bad luck if you know what I mean

[@D34D22]

Cooldude Awesome Supposedly just posses it in any way.

[@earth2006]

we're lucky it's still there, had recent events not gone a certain way, it mite not still be there, it mite of been made into a broch, a ring, a pendant or part of a crown.

[@joanflakesful]

It’s ownership that passes the curse along

[@melissatyree566]

I would love to see the diamond, I think its history is fascinating.

[@WaterIsLife77]

I've watched older videos of TopTenz, and Simon actually smiled. Why doesn't he smile anymore?

[@rickthemagicguy6075]

I actually got to meet the Postal Inspector who personally carried the Hope Diamond through New York Subway system. It was a cool story. He was in his late 90's before he died.

[@insonh21]

but he did "die" after he was in possession of it

[@rickthemagicguy6075]

@@insonh21 I guess you can say that. It took almost 80 years for the curse/old age to catch up to him.

[@insonh21]

@@rickthemagicguy6075 it reminds me of something i once heard. "It's said that drinking coffee is a long slow death, it must be true because I've been drinking it all my life and i'm not dead yet"

[@archiveseeker]

Some artifacts found by the Great Lakes region are said to be hidden by the Smithsonian. They were dated to be around 60,000 years old.

[@annad.l6087]

Could you imagine how much bigger the Smithsonian would have to be if they displayed everything in it's collection.

[@steveeich]

Regarding the pigeon project. My father worked on a program that was somewhat similar. During the Vietnam war we Americans ere losing a lot planes to the Soviet SA-6 missile system. My father was a Electronic Warfare specialist trying various electronic jamming and other electronic counter-measures against those missile. In the late 1960s he worked on a program that called for the training of large Ravens which would be fitted with an explosive to be carried around their necks . The birds we raised from birth to recognize the antenna of the search radar located on a truck connected to a battery of SAM missiles. One radar truck would typically control 6 missiles. The bird were trained to peck at the antenna which would release their food. Ravens being one of the very smartest animals on the planet it was felt that if they are release over North Vietnam they would faithfully find a radar truck and the explosive would detonate and destroy the antenna taking entire battery out of action for some period of time. In an odd twist my father once visited me in Northern Virginia in the 80s. . We took the tour of he Paul Garber facility of the Smithsonian where they store a massive amount of their collection, not open to general public. It was there that he got to finally see and touch a SA-6 system for the first time. The Smithsonian had acquired one from Bolivia . He made a comment about how he had spent years of this life competing again that system. It reminded me of two old boxers meeting after long serious of bouts, one was silent but as my father talked I could tell he gave that Soviet machine a lot of credit. First time I have ever told of that story and war plan.

[@myu2k2]

neat!

[@evita6208]

That's fascinating, thank you for sharing. Thanks to your dad for his service. Do you know the Project's name?

[@LivWildStyle]

Ah, possession denial, we have all tried it... Usually doesn't work.

[@matthewdaley746]

Possession denial must be the remaining one-tenth of the law.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@Blindashitmetalasfuck So uncomfortable.

[@boomstick4054]

The Smithsonian should have a big yard sale if they aren’t going to display the stuff...

[@bhadmomma8664]

Dibs on Dillinger’s pee pee...

[@johngrepo9976]

Oh Amy!....sheesh

[@tomkirby3281]

The story I heard about #10 was that it was actually in a nearby law enforcement/crime museum that someone may have confusedly thought was associated with the Smithsonian.

[@kthxbi]

I’m also English, and i’ve never heard someone pronounce inventory with 3 syllables... did not know you could do that edit for reference i'm hearing: in-VEN-tree but i've only ever previously heard: IN-ven-tor-ee

[@malahammer]

We say that in Ireland. Relax!

[@kthxbi]

@@malahammer wasn't getting agro, just didn't know that was a thing. It was kind of cool to learn!

[@kylethenile]

I think he was going for in-VEN-tuh-ry, which is still four syllables, but admittedly does sound way different.

[@Fred100159]

then there's aluminum 'a loo meh num' Discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy. If the British guy who discovered it called it 'aluminum', so should the rest of you Brits!!! 😊

[@donaldfeasey9167]

We say it as 3 also here in Oz.. like in-ven-tree

[@mikkibaker6907]

Many years back, the Army Institute of Pathology exhibited some of their collection in a makeshift museum on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC. The Dillinger piece of anatomy was said to be on display in that collection. That entity had nothing to do with The Smithsonian and, if it indeed exists, it would be the property of The National Museum of Health and Medicine.

[@raaharr]

I grew up in Washington in the fifties and loved to go to the various Smithsonian buildings on Saturday mornings. I guess because I was a kid the guards didn't pay much attention to me when I would sneak past the "No Admittance" signs and explore the back passages, especially the National History building. I saw case after case of shrunken heads and Civil War artifacts and just about anything that could be collected. Sadly, all of the "cool" stuff is now stored in huge warehouses in suburban Maryland, kind of like the warehouse from Indiana Jones, but no big wooden crates are used.

[@paulxaviercyr]

"Allegedly" should have been used... You know why, you LEGEND.

[@michaellouton3870]

Love these videos, always so fascinating. Thanks.

[@fritzidler9871]

As a child, I was way more impressed by John Dillinger bluffing his way out of his prison cell with a bar of soap, carved into the shape of a gun colored black with shoe polish. Talk about a giant member.

[@daveyjones815]

That bulge under the sheet covering John Dillinger is actually his arm in rigor mortis

[@gardener3030]

Yeah, his third arm!

[@jesseostone386]

Yeah, that’s what I thought, too. The placement of that bulge on his abdomen is too close to where the bottom of the ribcage would be.

[@rhondasloan17]

This needs to be re-titled "rumored objects that are not at the Smithsonian" misleading title

[@calebwarner4104]

It’s called clickbait

[@leegee1593]

Underrated video and channel! Good shit

[@jasonhare8540]

Your ghost bird is probably a starling . Where I live they're the most annoying night bird and they're loud as all hell

[@whoops8412]

Mysteries of the smithsonian was made into a movie: the night at the museum 😂💕

[@mariethemagnificent2000]

Conspiracy enthusiasts would love this!

[@cameronmcleod5346]

14:20 - 'it was too slow to keep up with the little peckers." ^I died laughing at that line.

[@gemman1]

One little bit of trivia about the Hope Diamond. When Meriwether Post (past owner of the Washington Post) had the Hope Diamond mounted he on the collar of her Great Dane

[@kimirockett5547]

I keep getting distracted by how he says 'inventory'.

[@amicmel7450]

Lol, yeah, he keeps putting the emPHASis on the wrong sylLABle every time he says invenTORy Not really using the king’s english...

[@valentinegoose9985]

I know, it should be pronounced inventory, not inventory.

[@kimirockett5547]

@@valentinegoose9985 mhmm exactly >.>

[@LeglessWonder]

Valentine Goose no no no ... it’s supposed to be pronounced inventory

[@mickeyhinmon5715]

I wonder often why he puts an “r” at the end of words that end with an “a”. I.e. Russia

[@josi4251]

My friend is a big shot at the Smithsonian and I plan to ask him a bunch of questions now!!!!

[@lizzdoe2821]

Josi Ooooo I wish I could hear what your friend says!!!🤩

[@josi4251]

@@lizzdoe2821 Will post an update, Lizzy!

[@BrianFury5803]

Ask him to spend a night there

[@timapple6586]

"My friend is a big shot at the Smithsonian" Yeah. So ask him what he thought of "TS Spivet"... if he's actually your friend anywhere other than on FB or insta. You ever even met this guy? If yes, then why did you have zero questions til today? Nothing weird or broken there.

[@MFO6]

How cool! Please do give an update! I bet he would be great to interview!

[@ArtBellJr]

I was wondering why Tom Cavanaugh made that Joke in stories from the vaults about " No part of Dillinger's body is stored here" now I get it 😂😆😂😆

[@deemariedubois4916]

Fascinating video. Thanks Simon and team.

[@riggs20]

If anyone is haunting the Smithsonian, it's Dillinger. Because, well, you know.

[@rusty1187]

I thought for sure he would have mentioned the Egyptian artifacts Kincade found in the cave in the Grand Canyon

[@notbad7490]

Simon, once again great video.

[@myu2k2]

There was also a scrapped project to train pigeons to find people lost at sea. Even though the pigeons were far more accurate than humans and machines alike at finding a tiny speck amid millions of square meters of water, the government canceled it due to how absurd it sounded on paper.

[@kevinconrad6156]

I've been in the attic of the Natural History Museum in the mid 70's. Had a summer internship and was sent up to get some artifacts that had been put into attic storage. There was lots on Native American pottery. Did not have time to explore and most things were in cabinets. Got spooked by a full sized model of a Native American with a hatchet that had been taken off display because it was racist. Never saw or heard any ghosts.

[@TheLoxxxton]

I was hoping and waitng for a 'night at the museum' reference.

[@lagitanavderoscio]

Ghosts are as close to a reference as can be.

[@timapple6586]

That hurts my feelings!

[@timapple6586]

Buttercup!

[@lagitanavderoscio]

@@timapple6586 ha ha ha Butterscotch!!! lol

[@timapple6586]

@@lagitanavderoscio Dude, you totally smoked me. I'd call you 'lilac'... but i'd be grasping after the wrong stiller movie. Your serve, match point. Ps: Obey my dog.

[@benvasilinda9729]

So what about the rumors that the Smithsonian has the Rock that David used to kill Goliath, the Apple that Adam gave Eve, the Mayans and Egyptians blueprints to building the perfect Pyramid and the answer to what is Victoria’s Secret? These are the findings that we’re all truly looking for.

[@josephtaub20]

Growing up in Washington, DC I was always told that Mr. Dillinger's personal i.d. was actually cared for in the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) housed in the Bethesda (Maryland) Naval Hospital. I don't know why. The Pigeon missile never got off the ground, so to speak, but the BatBomb did. Invented by a dentist, it consisted of a bat bearing an incendiary device, loaded in droves in a bomber and dropped over Japanese villages which, being mainly bamboo and paper, were highly flammable. The nascent atomic bomb obviated the need so it was only deployed once in a test, which worked perfectly as the test subject instantly hid in a research facility shed and burned it to the ground--in the US desert.

[@erinjohnson-foster2357]

Please keep up the amazing job Simon Whistler is the best!!!!!

[@grahamsinton7602]

Anybody else notice the ghostly dissembodied and almost skeletal hand in the still shot of the diamond at around 10:55 to 11 minutes?

[@Kiddman32]

Reflection in the glass.

[@hiptothajive]

HOLY CRAP!! I remember having nightmares about those crash test dummies. I always thought they were from a horror movie, but my parents didn’t ever know what I was talking about. I’ve never been able to find out anything about it. This explains that. Wow....

[@jaydee5156]

I've been to several of the Smithsonian museums with multiple times to a few. An incredible experience.

[@TheCat72850]

Is the Ark of the Covenant, rescued by Indiana Jones there? 😆 Poor little pigeons! Thanks for sharing. Used to love to go to Smithsonian when I lived outside DC.

[@margaretjeannemoore]

You missed Ishi’s brain and the original moon landing footage.

[@briangleason5597]

I really enjoy you're Chanel. As a History buff I would love to see all the hidden treasures. And to touch a piece of History.

[@happyaccident00]

I now want a bed that has curtains around it. Never knew I needed that

[@hightea2546]

Saw the”Hope” way Cool , that is so much hype,, that is one of the coolest place Ever , including the Dummies

[@treborironwolfe978]

Lol I can so relate to the delivery man of the Hope Diamond.. "I've consistently had bad luck for the last forty years, I'm not about to give credit to this shiny little turd stone for what happened today!"

[@LouLope]

Thumbs up, good job Simon.

[@thebeefyburrito4433]

Adore this channel. ❤️

[@justinbrooks3082]

One of my relatives owned the hope diamond... she let her dog wear it on the canine's birthday.

[@rexstratton73_12]

The Smithsonian is located in the "Mall" in DC. in that complex is also the National art Museum., The Army Medical Museum and something else. Anyway, you may have been to the Army medical museum, and thought you were at the Smithsonian. They have all manor of anomilies there pickled and in jars.

[@smoothlyamusing1502]

The Smithsonian has 4 buildings connected with even more underground

[@rexstratton73_12]

@@smoothlyamusing1502 Yeah, I reckon they do.

[@drad1537]

I see and can bear Simon as a narrator of a movie I want to see. Some spooky water mystery read along with a start of Simons voice talking bout the mysterious event of some geographical area or venue....keep going brother!!!

[@vilepsycho4852]

Wooow! You brought me back with the crash test dummies lol. Totally forgot about them.

[@mr._durden_]

They have one of my toenails. They aren’t aware yet....but they have one.

[@Strype13]

Which artifact did you stub it on?

[@WildStar2002]

LOL! Thanks for making my day with this comment! :-)

[@shoeshinegirl101]

New to your channel. I was wondering if you’ve ever done one about all the giant bones that were reported in newspapers throughout America then given to the Smithsonian Institute and never heard and/or seen again. Curious as to what happened to them. Or, if the newspaper articles are true.

[@allanbaker5945]

Indeed, the same topic is on my mind.

[@codename495]

You actually wonder if a newspaper article about GIANT HUMAN BONES is valid? Giants aren’t real, haven’t ever been real and won’t be real in the future.

[@Strype13]

Definitely not true. If giants were a thing, it'd be impossible to keep their records and/or existence hidden. For example, average citizens stumble upon dinosaur bones on a daily basis... but not giant humanoids. And then you have archaeologists...

[@Dangic23]

Just watched the other day on tv the discovery of giant bones in South America. New discovery...still digging around it.

[@Dangic23]

@Oftin Wong It was an actual paleontologist and archeologists.....so there is that also.

[@horrorkesh]

Well if it's to be believed that ghosts are attached to objects then a museum being haunted would make perfect sense

[@Concetta20]

That first item made me do a double take. WHAT?! Where did that wild rumor come from?! That rumor that it was kept pickled in J. Edgar Hoover’s possession wouldn’t surprise me ...

[@roderickwhitehead]

10 mysteries that AREN'T locked away in the Smithsonian.

[@trawlins396]

I can't even imagine to imagine the amount of historical treasures that are in the Smithsonians basements, attics, cupboards, etc.

[@brandonshebester9574]

I don't know. Maybe the Hope Diamond curse did affect the entire nation. Things HAVE gotten pretty bad

[@mwilson7345]

There are multiple buildings and cannot be seen in entirety in just one day but it is well worth a visit if you get the chance , it is amazing .

[@RayfieldA]

WHERES THE GIANT SKELETONS?!?! 😤😂

[@shieldbrother7425]

Nonexistent

[@keetrandling4530]

in•VENT'or•ees ? IN'ven•Tor•ees

[@jellybean4]

Fascinating video!

[@richardbarnett1917]

Thank you for this information.

[@flordeamapolita]

Oh! Oh! Oh! Next do the grossest things in the Mutter Museum. Think mega colon....ooooh spooky.

[@rosaamarillo2110]

Philly? Right?

[@flordeamapolita]

@@rosaamarillo2110 I believe so.

[@laurenk1766]

I love the Mutter Museum! It has really cool stuff! Yes, Philadelphia.

[@anemiab.8165]

It figures Hoover would have Dillingers ween. Naughty Queen. ;->

[@wordforger]

I mean, based on what we know of Hoover, it does seem like the sort of weird thing he would do.

[@milobrophy]

true

[@oldmikie]

Nice work.

[@ricksmith2206]

I was friends with Dr.David Johnston. Head curator of the Washington branch,what a smart guy